Senior Software Engineer - Emerging Markets

Who We Are :

Alpact is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more, supporting 24 / 5 trading operations. Our recent Series C funding round has raised over $170 million, fueling our ambitious vision.

Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, collectively supporting over 6 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of talented engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals dedicated to our mission of making financial services accessible to everyone on the planet. We emphasize our commitment to open-source contributions and community engagement, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure supporting it.

Alpact is proudly backed by top-tier global investors including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Our Team Members :

We are a dynamic team of over 230 globally distributed members who thrive by working from our favorite locations around the world, including the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond. We are looking for passionate individuals ready to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you resonate with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are poised to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Your Role :

As a Senior Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain the systems and services that form the foundation of Alpaca, empowering millions of users to trade billions of dollars in assets. You will lead regional recruitment initiatives, guide cross-functional team projects, mentor talent regarding our engineering principles, and foster Alpaca's culture. You will also ensure operational reliability engineering and serve as incident commander during business hours to maintain proactive stability around the clock.

We seek an experienced full-stack engineer who is committed to delivering seamless, high-quality software solutions. The ideal candidate will possess a proven track record of designing and building scalable applications, be comfortable challenging the status quo, and advocate for innovative solutions. You will have the autonomy to architect and implement solutions aligned with our strategic objectives, while actively contributing to collaborative goal-setting with a cross-functional team.

Things You Get To Do :

• Design a highly scalable, mission-critical brokerage system.
• Develop and enhance middle and back office systems, including gRPC microservices, React-based UI for internal administration and API developers, and third-party vendor integrations.
• Collaborate closely with Alpaca's core teams to enhance and transform foundational frameworks, enabling support for multiple languages, currencies, and markets.
• Engage with tech leads in other regions both synchronously and asynchronously to align with global teams.
• Troubleshoot incidents and reported bugs to uphold system integrity and performance.
• Navigate regulatory requirements and build scalable solutions to support Alpaca's international growth.
• Be on call to assist with timely engineering projects as needed.

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Alpaca is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to hiring a diverse workforce.